Record-packet.



' GL T. WILLIAMS.

3500111) PACKET. APPLICATION FILED PEB.4,19Q8.

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Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

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Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

G. T. WILLIAMS.

. REOORD PACKET.

APPLICATION FILED 1 212.4. 1908.

UNITED sTATEs GEORGE T. WILLIAMS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RECORD-PACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, 1909.

Application filed February 4, 1908. Serial No. 414,175.

- tan, in the county and State of New York,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Record-Packets, of which the.

following is a specification.

The invention relates to envelopsadapted to serve in containing disk records for talk ing machines, and the object of the invention is to provide a simple inexpensive packet so constructed as to permit the retailor to deliver the desired record to the consumer in an envelop of the form usually employed in the trade, and so constructed as to show whether or not the record has been removed from the packet as originally received by the retailer from the manufacturer or distributer.

The consumer is accustomed to receiving the record in a simple bag-like envelop without flaps, and it has been the custom in the trade to deliver the record thus inclosed to the retailer; under this system returns by the retailer could not be credited for the reason that no assurance could be given that the records thus returned had not been played and thereby impaired in value. By the use of the present invention the envelops show whether or notjthe records have been removed, and such as do not bear evidence of removal may be returned and exchanged or credit given therefor.

The invention consists in' certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement by which the above objects are attained, to be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification and show an approved form of the invention.

Figure 1 is aface view of the blank or sheet of paper before folding to form the envelop. Fig.'2 is, a view of the rear face of the completed envelop. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the frontface with a record inclosed, forming the packet as received by the retailer. Fig. 4 is a corresponding section on the line 44 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a similar section showing the envelop before the introduction of the record. Fig. 6 is a transverse section taken on the line 66 in Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a view of the front face of the envelop in the condition in which it is delivered to the consumer with its contained record. Fig. 8

.and D is the closing flap is a corresponding section on the line 8-8 in Fig. 7 Fig. 9 is a similar section showing the empty envelop.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts inall the figures.

A-is the front of the envelop having a circular opening a therein, B is a protectiveliap forming part of the same sheet and adapted to be folded on the rear face of the front A to which it corresponds in its dimensions, the folding line having a series of perforations b to facilitate separation along such line.

- C C are side flaps or wings folded one upon'the other to inclose the protective-flap and gummed at their overlapping edges, gummed on its inner margin and adapted to close the envelop by adhesion to the upper ends of the wings C C. r

The record M is inserted in the pocket formed by the front A and protective-flap B, before the closing flap is gummed'down, and with the label bearing the title of the record exposed through the opening a, the closing flap is then moistened and gummed to seal the acket. In this condition the record recelved by the retailer. On call of a consumer to hear the record preliminary to purchasing, the retailer severs the protectivefiap B from the front A along the line of perforations ,6, draws out and discards the protective-flap, removes the record from the bag-like envelop now remaining, and plays it; if the consumer purchases the record, the

latter is replaced in the same envelop with the protective-flap omitted, and thus delivered in the form of envelop to which the consumer is accustomed. In case the consumer does not buy, the record is similarly replaced and laid in stock and may be used for demonstration to another consumer. velops as have the protective-flap intact and undisturbed may be returned to the manufacturer or distributer and full credit given therefor. as it is evident they have not been played.

By forming the protective-flap of nearly or quite the same dimensions as the front A, and making the envelop just large enough to receive the record, renders it practically impossible to remove and replace the flap as would be required in the removal and replacement of the record, and forms an exceedingly inexpensive but effective sealing means. The line of perforations 6 increases Such en- -the proportions of its parts; the

flap must be in all cases of such size relatively the difliculty of such removal and replacement by the liability to tear along such line and thus indicate the infraction.

Although I have described the invention as applied to the distribution of talking-machine records it will be understood that it will serve with other articles to which it may i be adaliited.

The envelop mav be varied J1] sizeand m protectiveto the front as to preclude its removal and refolding. The perforations Z) may be omitted.

I claim l. The. envelop described, comprising a front, a protective-flap corresponding in di mensions to said front and folded upon the interior face thereof and terminating within the same, side wings on said front folded one upon the other and gunnned together on their overlapping margins, and a closing flap on said front opposite to saidprotective-flap, all arranged to serve with a dish record matching to and received in said envelop.

2. The envelop described, comprising a front having an opening therein, a protective-flap corresponding in dimensions to said front, folded upon the interior face of the latter and terminating within the same and having a series of perfontions along such folding line, side wings on said front folded one upon the other and gummed together on their overlapping margins, and a closing flap on said front opposite to said protective-flap, all arranged to serve with a disk record matching to and received in said envelop.

3. In a record packet, an envelop comprising a front having an opening therein, a protective-flap corresponding in dimensions to said front, folded upon the interior face of the latter and terminating within the same and having a series of perforations along such folding line, side wings on said front folded one upon the other and gummed together on their overlapping margins, and a 4:. As an improved article of manufaeture,

the envelop described. comprising a front. an integral protective-[lap corres;ioiiding in dimensions to said front. and folded upon the interior face thereof, side wings on said front folded one upon the oth and gummcd iogether on their verlapping margins, said side wings embracing and concealing the free end of the protective-flap, and a closing flap on said front opposite to said protectived'lap and engaging said front independent of the protective-flap, said front having an opening therein.

as an improved article of manufacture, the envelop described, comprising a front, an integral protectivetlap corresponding in dimensions to said front and folded upon the interior face thereof, side wings on said front folded one upon the other and gummed to gether on their overlapping margins, said side wings embracing and concealing the free end of the protective-flap, and a closing tlap on said front opposite to said protective-flap and engaging said front independent of the protective-flap, said front having an opening therein, in combination with a disk record received in said envelop between the interior face of said front and said protective-flap with a portion exposed through the op ning in the front, there being a line of perforations between the proteetivelhip and the front against which the dish record bears.

In testimony that I claim the invention above set forth I atlix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE T. \VILLIA MS.

Vi itnesses CHARLES Len Marlins, CHARLES R. Sniini'in. 

